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Little Men · Beat 182 · permalink

Private office

55:00–56:05 Released 1940; registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:3155:31Frame at 56:0456:04

Play from 55:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 443–444. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in police uniform, dark uniform, peaked cap, holding a small object visible
  • man in light shirt and plaid vest, standing, gesturing visible
  • Willie (named at t:55:36): man seated, disheveled, bruised face, wearing dark jacket, appears injured visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and vest, bending over p3, assisting him visible
Seen happening
  • A police officer and a man in a vest stand near a seated, injured man. [frame:1]
  • A man in a vest leans over the injured man, who is clutching his chest. [frame:2]
Also said
“When I come to, I'm looking at that cop right in the star. Me pockets are empty and my tools are gone. Oh, Major, if this gets out, I tell you, I'm ruined. Here.” 55:47 · “Major! I'm on fire! Major, do something!” 55:59
Seen
police uniform [frame:1], plaid vest [frame:1], bottles on table [frame:1], bruised face [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: crime, distress, authority; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a police uniform and another man in a vest stand near a seated, injured man who is later seen being attended to. The transcript reveals the injured man was robbed in an alley and is now distressed, claiming he is on fire.

“Certainly I know him. He lives here. Well, I found him in the alley behind the First National Bank. He's been assaulted and robbed.” 55:13 · “Oh, I'm walking down an alley, and a fella bunks into me so polite like he tips his hat to me.” 55:38 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Little Men (1940) at 55:31 (passage 55:00–56:05); US record: No renewal found

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